Who Will Make Cybergambling Laws In Australia

16 July 1998

As many Australian states move to create laws to control and regulate over the Internet gambling, a counter view that control should be an issue for the Federal Government has been put forward.

A paper by Prof. McMillen of the Australian Institute for Gambling Research and Dr Peter Grabosky, Director of Research at the Australian Institute of Criminology argue that Internet gambling laws are too important to be left to the states. The paper on this issue can be found here.

Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No. 88:

Internet Gambling.
Jan McMillen & Peter Grabosk
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi88-txt.html




IGN's Mr.Nambling is a gaming industry consultant and commentator with over 23 years industry experience, Glenn Barry has held senior management positions in Lottery and gaming operations around the world. His claims to fame include starting the first successful US Lotto in NewYork in 1978 and the NSW (Australia) in 1979.